As snow settles on the ground and temperatures drop, it’s easy to think most animals are doing what plenty of people do—curling up somewhere warm and waiting out the freeze.

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to ...

Scientists examined the genomes of 112 reptile species, ranging from snakes and crocodiles to chameleons, and found the reason.

If you got eaten by a snake, it could take a whole month to digest you... but it would at least leave your hair ...

A recent study compiled over 500 incidents of cannibalism in more than 200 species of snakes, revealing that the behavior is ...

The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.

A cute video of an Amazon tree boa yawning went viral, but is it really yawning? Read here to learn more about why snakes yawn.

The South Florida Water Management District started its second year of the python elimination program. One hunter has stood ...

Cannibalism in snakes has usually appeared as a footnote rather than a focus. It shows up in old field notebooks, brief case reports, or unexpected mo.

This range of presentations implies something rather intriguing: that each order of animals that lost the ghrelin gene did so ...

“If you look at the iguana, there’s a circle on the side of its head that’s actually a really good aiming point,” he says. “There’s other shots we take as well that can immediately incapacitate the ...